ALGIE, Robert Arthur
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 9 May 1885, Ballarat |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Instructional Staff (AIF) |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1862 |
| Home Town: | Prahran, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Professional Soldier |
| Died: | Struck by a tramcar, No 5 AGH, (Base Hospital), St Kilda Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 March 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Pres. B. 105. |
| Memorials: |
Non Warlike Service
| 9 May 1885: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Ballarat |
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World War 1 Service
| 15 Mar 1918: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lieutenant, Officer, Instructional Staff (AIF) |
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Boer War Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Officer, 3rd Victorian Bushmans Contingent |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Robert Arthur ALGIE was born in Ballarat in 1862
His parents were John ALGIE & Elizabeth WILKINS who married in Victoria in 1858 - they had 14 children
Robert first served in the Boer War (Service Number unknown) in the 3rd Victorian Bushmans Contingent and also served in the Victorian Volunteers and World War 1 - he was a professional soldier who first enlisted in Ballarat on 9th May, 1885 as a Private
He went from Private in the 3rd Battalion, Victorian Rifles to Corporal & Sergeant and was a Sergeant Instructor in the permanent staff of the Victorian Rifles and also Company Sergeant Major - he also served as Staff Warrant Officer with the Australian Instructional Corp which was his last unit
He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1914 and Acting Brigade Major in 1915
Robert married Elizabeth McINTOSH in Victoria in 1886 - they had one daughter Isabel Hamilton ALGIE b. 1890 - after Elizabeth died in 1916 he remarried to Sarah Jane KENNETT in 1917 - no listed children
He died on 15th March, 1918 after he was struck by a tramcar in St Kilda Road and sustained a skull fracture - he was transported to the Base Hospital in Victoria where he died - he is buried in the Fawkner Memorial Park in Victoria after a Military Funeral
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He was accepted for commemoration as Great War dead on 20th July, 2017
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